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Peacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events

Peacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events

Shira Li Bartov, JTAPublished April 22, 2024

(JTA) — A Holocaust romance, sparked when a prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau is forced to tattoo a number on another prisoner’s arm and they fall in love at first sight, sounds almost implausibly uplifting for a story set in a concentration camp. But...

Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University in New York City on April 20, 2024. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz / AFP) (Photo by LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Rabbi at Columbia U urges Jewish students to leave campus

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished April 21, 2024

(JTA) — An Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University has encouraged students to leave the campus until further notice, saying that he does not believe the university and city police can be counted on to keep Jewish students safe. “What we are witnessing...

Soft matzo was once the norm throughout the Jewish world. Photo by Sam Lin-Sommer

No, your matzo doesn’t need to be drier than the Sinai

By Sam Lin-Sommer, The ForwardPublished April 19, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. I look forward to Passover every Spring. It’s a raucous affair of wine, food and storytelling, and I can’t get enough...

Robin WIlliams at the Happy Feet Two Australian Premiere 4 December 2011,

Robin Williams’ hilarious Exodus retelling is a must-see Passover tradition

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 19, 2024

Robin Williams was not a Jew, but perhaps it was because of his lifetime friendship and professional partnership with Jewish comedy legend Billy Crystal that many people think he was indeed Jewish. Williams, who died in 2014, embraced Jewish culture...

Part of a delivery of tactical helmets to the Israeli army’s Golani Brigade, which were donated earlier this week in memory of Tomer Grinberg, a soldier killed in combat in December.

Six months into war, Israeli soldiers still count on donations for basic supplies. Why?

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished April 18, 2024

(JTA) — When Aaron Moshe Shalman was recalled for another round of reserve duty in Israel’s army last month, he took to Facebook, seeking help for his 35-member paratrooper unit. “We are in dire need of equipment: tactical helmets, tactical uniforms,...

Launch of #LetOurPeopleGo campaign presses for hostages release

Launch of #LetOurPeopleGo campaign presses for hostages’ release

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 18, 2024

As the St. Louis Jewish community as well as Jews throughout the world prepare to gather around the seder table to commemorate the Exodus and freedom from bondage, we cannot forget the 133 hostages who remain captive in Gaza. To seize...

Israeli army flares fall over the northern Har Dov area on Mount Hermon on Nov. 13, 2023, amid increasing cross-border tensions between Lebanons Hezbollah and Israel as fighting continues with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)

Survey: Jews feel close to Israel; its government, not so much

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished April 18, 2024

(JTA) — As of early March, five months into Israel’s war with Hamas, American Jews felt close to Israel but were also likely to feel uncomfortable with its government’s actions, according to a Jewish Federations of North America poll. Almost...

Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia University, testifies about Jew-hatred on campus before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on April 17, 2024.

Columbia University leaders grilled about campus Jew-hatred

Andrew Bernard, JNSPublished April 17, 2024

Columbia University’s president, its two board co-chairs and a co-chair of its antisemitism taskforce testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday about Jew-hatred on campus since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Student...

A long exposure picture shows Iron Dome firing interception missiles, as seen from the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on May 16, 2021. Photo by Avi Roccah/Flash90

Everything you need to know about Israel’s Iron Dome

By Naama Barak, Israel21cPublished April 17, 2024

The current round of violence between Israel and Iran, as well as Hamas in the Gaza Strip erupted with a literal boom as rockets and drones were fired from Iran toward Israel. They set off rocket attack sirens that have become the soundtrack of the...

Esther Panitch, a state representative, in the Georgia House of Representatives chamber in the state Capitol in Atlanta, on Jan. 25, 2024. Credit: Georgia House of Representatives.

‘My southern Jewish … way of saying bless their hearts,’ says state rep who buys trees in Israel for trolls

Menachem Wecker, JNSPublished April 16, 2024

Esther Panitch was inspired when Renee Evans, of the World Jewish Congress, bought trees in Israel recently for Peach State legislators who voted in favor of a bill to codify into law the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working...

Nov 4, 2023; Altoona, Iowa, United States; Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman speaks at the Iowa Democrats Liberty and Justice Celebration. Mandatory Credit: Rachel Mummey-The Des Moines Register

Sen. Fetterman: ‘Astonishing’ the U.S. is ‘not standing firmly’ with Israel

By Jacob Kornbluh, The ForwardPublished April 15, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, lambasted President Joe Biden’s recent critique of Israel’s action...

People take cover in a stairway in Jerusalem, as a red alert is sounded when drones and missiles fired from Iran neared Israel, April 14, 2024.

As Jews do, Israelis awaiting Iranian missile barrage, counter with humor

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished April 14, 2024

(JTA) — The sirens started blaring all over Israel just before 2 a.m. — in the south, in the north, near army bases around the country and, unusually, in and around Jerusalem. The sirens are meant to stop Israelis in their tracks — or wake...

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